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Some Vista’s Wireless connection lag every 60 secs or 30 secs, it is because the Vista’s build-in wireless software try to look for a better connection every minutes. You can fix this by installing a tool called Vista Anti-Lag. This tool is free so you might want to give it a try.

This bug is not really significant to feel it in normal web browsing but can be very annoying in online game such as World of Warcraft. The tool may or may not work for you. A wired connection should solve this problem.

Interface of Vista Anti-lag

You may come across that windows force you to create an extra account during the initial setup. Then you try to delete it but cannot find any delete option. To force windows to remove the extra account you can go to Start -> Run and type in “control userpasswords2” without the quote and hit Enter. It will bring up a User Accounts window and you should be able to delete it from there.

Advanced User Account Control Panel

When you cant play a video file, often is that you do not have the right decoder / codec for it. For example Real, DIVX and others format required their own decoder to watch them properly. I have tried this tool Storm and it works perfectly for me. Just install this player and you can play all video format (atleast I have not run into any problem yet).

One of the neat feature is when you open a video file it will automaticaly add all the relavant episods into the play list. However this program is in chinese only, I dunno if there is an english version for it.

You can download version 3.6 here: www.baofeng.com

No ads crack – Download (Tested on version 3.6. Please use at your own risk)

Sometimes you want to resize a dozen of pictures and found that it is so troublesome to do it 1 by 1. Forget about big software such as Photoshop or GIMP, here is a simple way to get it done quickly and free. 

1. First download IrfanView from http://www.irfanview.net/ and install it.

2. Launch the program and choose File -> Batch Conversion/Rename…

3. Select your original image and click “Add” into your Input files list. Set your output directory and select the “Options” and “Advanced” button to adjust your batch settings.

4. “Options”: Select your image output quality, generally “80″ quality plus 1024 width resolution images will get you image sizes around 80 to 200kb. 

5. “Advances”: Select RESIZE and Set long side to 1024, asuming you want to resize to 1024 pixel. Remember to check the “Preserve aspect ratio” so that it will resize the heigh for you automatically based on the given width. Play around with different figures to find out what best suite your needs.

6. Click ok and then run “Start Batch”. Your resized images will be done in a few seconds.

Here comes another good software from Google – Google Web Browser ! After installed and have a run, outstanding ! It feels really smooth and light.

After the installation, it let you choose where to import your data such as IE, Firefox etc. It works preatty much the same as FIrefox but lighter and slimmer. The interface is clean and neat which gives more space for web content.

However, Google chrome does not support plugin (soon perhaps). If you like plugins might as well still stay with Firefox until plugins feature is supported in Chrome.

Google Chrome Home Page

Google Browser - Chrome

Google Talk default installation does not allow users to set their online status. Your friends will always know when you are idle or active. There is a tool called  galwaysidle to solve this problem. After you have installed it, you will be able to set your online status such as Always Active, Always Idle or the normal way.

After the installation, right click your google talk icon at the taskbar and you will see something like this:

Recently I have tried 2 pinyin program for windows. Its really help to type faster compared to the default Microsoft pinyin. They are pretty smart with the words combination.

They are easy easy to use and install, just download it and install it and you are done. Press alt + Shift (may be different, check your language settings) to switch between English or Pinyin input.

Google Pinyin, plain and simple.

Sougou Pinyin, with many themes to play with.

Sometimes you may want to match a color in your design or configuration but it is very hard to figure out what is the color code. With ColorPic, you can easily retrieve color codes by pointing your mouse arrow to anywhere on your monitor.

Google Talk, Labs Edition is another version of google talk with additional features such as group chat, google calendar and Orkut notifications. If you use web googletalk before, you notice it can transform or rotate your smillies to a nice looking one. Previously this feature is not supported in the normal googletalk client, now the labs edition will have this feature included. However, in the Labs Edition, voice chat and file transfer is not included grrrrr.

If you are google calendar users and rely heavily on it for notifications, google talk labs edition is for you. You can customize how it notifies you and even snoop it. Yes, just like how you snoop your morning alarm clock.

If you are using a legitimate Windows XP SP2 and unable to install the latest IE7 or WMP11 due to some reasons. You can download the Registry.zip file below and install it into your registry. Then just try to install your IE7 or WMP again, it should now bypassing the usual WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) check and install your applications successfully.

Download:

1. Internet Explorer 7

2. Windows Media Player 11

3. Registry.zip

You should owned the legitimate Windows XP before doing all the steps above. Use as your own risk.

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